Slow Mouse Movement

Okay, I'm not sure of how to fix this. My mouse pointer is moving slow, but its not because of the graphics card not moving up to speed but its like, the mouse input is too slow. It has done it with particular games. The first Half Life it was horrible, the keyboard did the same also and was impossible to play. It would work, but if I made a quick shift of the mouse, it had a delayed movement. I decided to play the first Splinter Cell now that I have the map pack and the mouse does it in there. I haven't a problem in Half Life 2 and other games. Is it possible because its USB? or because I am not using the USB 2.0 port?

Actually, some kind of tweaking in the game might help. Something with the mouse input. I'm not too familar with this.

I will try a none USB mouse or a different port.

Also, the keyboard is USB. And the USB ports, there are two next to the Ethernet port and two farther down and two on the front. I think the ones on the front are 2.0

I've noticed lag in GTA III, Kill.Switch, Half Life (the first), Splinter Cell, and some other games. It delays. If I jerk the mouse quick, its like a second delay. Makes shooting difficult. The keyboard was the same for Half Life, but not other games.

Half Life stopped doing it in OpenGL so it had to be Direct3D, but most other Direct3D games are fine.

I'll try Google and will see what I can find.

I think another thread on here said that a wireless mouse fixed the issue.

It's probably not a mouse problem. Probably something with the way the game uses input from the mouse. Or, maybe it's latency with the graphics card on certain games. Half Life 2 is fine, it works great. I just got Half Life: Source and it's not a problem, probably because it's running off a different engine. But it is using Directx. When using Directx on the original it was really bad. It didn't do that on my old PC running Windows 98 though. I was using the same video card actually. So, maybe its a Windows XP problem.

I also found in Splinter Cell's config something about fix mouse lag. It seems to work the same. I'll check again. Maybe I didn't save the file when I exited.

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